(also featuring Taric) level: 5 day/time: Day Three - Very Early Morning Location: Tetris Castle Tagging: various npcs @Holy Soldier Bentley @ONL Shantae [@Guardian Angel] Haruki James @Zarkun Cuphead @Majoras End
What followed Naija’s retelling of the events of the attack was a lot more talk from Dr Light that she did not much understand which, along with Bentley's own foray into the unknown, left Naija’s head spinning. As a result she genuinely appreciated the final section that involved an attempt at education that, while it mostly went over her head, at least gave her enough familiar context for her to latch onto that she could understand the implications of potential the disaster that irreparable annihilation could bring even if the specifics still eluded her. At any rate, she had plenty of time to mull it over as bently launched into his hacking session and unloaded another load of mumbo jumbo that the Naija quickly decided just to ignore as she got the impression it wasnt really directed at anyone but back at the turtle himself.
Taric meanwhile,as a worldly and well read warrior, had managed to grasp the doctor's explanation to a better degree than the tired fish woman. He might not understand the references to higher technology, but he recognized the danger the eraser blade represented.
”This is most troubling, a weapon whose wounds cannot be undone could do untold damage, for could it perhaps kill that which would not normally die? I fear it might be able to it annihilate fundamental parts of our worlds, leaving them forever broken.”
Naija had little to add to the knight’s question for it was while she was mulling this all over that her tired mind had finally taken in something Dr light has casually mentioned in his lesson:
“Thus, why we can still save the hero, Mario.”
Thus the fish out of water, ignorant of so many things found in the worlds of the Arcade including the revival item she herself had been in possession of since the smash arena incident, gracelessly launched herself over to the good doctor, grabbed him by the coat, hauling herself up to be face to face with the bearded fellow and asked, in a manner much like a man named after another slippery scaled creature might ask:
“We can still save mario?!”
Her parroted query was loud and raw with the mess of emotions gripping the woman. Hope that the tragedy that she saw as her personal failure could be undone, guilt that she was not already helping with whatever task was require for the mustachioed hero to back to them and a slight undercurrent of confusion as to the purpose of funerals.
Level: 2 day/time: day 3 - morning Location: From Ulfric's Tent to Markarth Word count: 1,022 Interacting with: @Zarkun, @Holy Soldier
Piper wasn’t entirely sure how long it was between the moment Azura disappeared from sight into the dark forest and the arrival of twilight hour when the camp started to wake up but she was glad when it finally arrived, as it meant the wait was finally over. What had been a somewhat enjoyable evening getting to know some of the Stormcloaks had turned to one of worrying and second guessing herself as to whether she had made the right decisions with letting the singer go out on her own. Casual conversation with the guards was replaced with pacing too and fro or repeatedly doing maintenance checks on her equipment. Cleaning her blacksmith sniper, counting her remaining rounds, making sure her joints where properly oiled and so on. She was not normally a worrywort, she sometimes sent her crew off on heists without her after all, but her lack of knowledge of both Azura’s capabilities and what triles she might face in this frigid place let her mid run wild with fears of potential disaster. Add to this the feeling of helplessness caused by sitting still in the same place in a stationary for rather than the mobile ship she was used to for several hours and it all added up to a rather unpleasant night. With light fast approaching she was glad she could now put those thoughts behind her and focus on the task at hand.
Her sleepless night and forewarning of dawn's arrival by one of the last watch-women had allowed her plenty of time to prepare, and so she joined the others fully fueled up and raring to go, making the Boss the only person Ulfric actually had to wake up. Vent had apparently risen early and taken the time to change getup, while the boss arrived (eventually) in what appeared to be a foul, and somewhat disheveled, mood. She thought it might have been to do with Azura’s disappearance, but this was disproved when he only noticed this halfway through their march to Markarth, thought to his credit he did quickly figure out where she was, so Piper did not feel the need to bring up her prior knowledge of this.
The match itself was a long and sluggish one, though Piper at least had the advantage of company. Being a mobile campfire got her quite the following, namly a huddle of Stormcloaks, some of them part of the night watch who had tracked her down specifically for company or warmth, surrounded her as they traveled, the group conveniently masked the warm glow emanating from her chest that could have tipped off any of the enemy’s scouts to their approach. When they caught sight of Markarth in the distance Piper finally got a look at the place they were going to rob liberate. Bathed in the light of imminent dawn it was a considerably more impressive than the wooden fort they had spent the night in, a town seemingly carved into and out of the rocky hills it was built against. She took the opportunity, while they approached for a distance, to try and mentally match what she could see of the the actual city, the bits of it poking up from behind its walls at least, to the previous nights crude mock up of it. She did not have long to do so however as they soon had to take to hiding from the Forsworn guarding the front gate.
Her complete lack of stealth capabilities, from her bright glowing chest piece to her red “hair”, polished bronze body and novelty santa hat meant that she was unable to watch the sneaking missions of her two allies, let alone believed she could join in without giving them away, and instead she made do with the whispered commentary of a nearby nord who did not mind lying in the snow and creeping a little closer to spectate the proceedings. Not that there was much to report most of the time, as the woman somehow lost track of both the Boss and vent despite the bright purple atier the two were sporting today. The only two brief flurries of information she received where a poor attempt at describing the Bosses the boss’s athletic takedown of the gatehouse guards in real time and his subsequent touch flailing, followed by Vempt’s ninja strike on those down below.
As vent finished dispatching the guards at the gate only one Forsworn was left alive, one who had been taking a piss break nearby and who returned upon just barely hearing the quiet sounds of their comrades assassination to find their bodies strewn across the snow. Before they could raise their weapon in an attempt to exact vengeance however their head was struck, harmlessly, by a lingering red laser beam. Behind a rock several hundred meters up the road piper pulled the trigger of her blacksmith sniper that she was aiming at an entirely different rock. The bullet leaped out of the barrel, following along the path laid out by the laser sight, striking the other rock off of which the beam was inexplicably reflecting and then ricocheting off at a 90 degree angle, sailing off towards the head of the unfortunate Forsworn. They couldn’t see the hidden flash, but they heard the crack of the gunshot, muffled somewhat by stone and snow, moments before their brain matter was spattered across the ground.
Back up in her hiding spot Piper did not stop to ponder how exactly attaching a scope to a weapon added a laser sight function, nor how said beam allowed here to aim near perfectly at targets completely out of her line of sight and istead simply asked the watching scout:
”Did I get them?”
After receiving confirmation from the missions narrator she clicked open the revolver's cylinder, carefully removed and then replaced the spent cartridge with one from one of the pouches on her hips. After locking the cylinder back in place and giving it the traditional spin she stood from her sniping position and prepared to advance towards the gate alongside Ulfric‘s army.
Atop a rolling hill overlooking the city stood a frameless door. The door, that had not been there the previous day, was as mundane as they came, made of wood cleanly painted white and featuring a small door handle of brass sat above a simple lock. At its center sat a dull iron knocker, faintly rusted. What was unusual about the door however, was the fact that it was floating a few centimeters above the ground. Up to this door runs lupa, safely out of her disguise in the rather isolated location, her dark fur letting her blend into the night. She grabs the knocker and pounds away for a few moments before stepping back when the door is opened by another Lupa.
“Hi. I found food for sticky!” the first wolf girl exclaims, holding up her hand to present a number of crickets struggling futility in between her furred fingers.
“Good. You’re just in time for dinner to” the door opener informs her, stepping aside to let her double inside, briefly revealing the interior of an apartment on the other side of the doors, where a number of other Lupas are in the middle of doting over a variety of tank held pets to the sound of a kettle boiling and the frying of what might be meat.
“Sweet.” The cricket catcher responds before dashing inside towards an un-womaned tank holding a gecko. The door clicks shut moments before she presents the lizards with its dinner.
A few minutes later the door opens once more, briefly re-revealing the room that was now devoid of Lupas save for the one that steps out of it holding a noodle pot that had had a number of chunks of a ugly grey meat added to it. She sits down on the side of the hill in the grass and looks down towards the glowing lights of her destination, one full of glamor, danger and, hopefully, monsters. Digging into the unhealthy meal she reflects upon the distance she had to travel to get here, jogging across the kilometers of country lead on by an insatiable urge born of her patron Feral that still gnaws at her while she while she sits and plans. All too soon the meal is over and, after tossing the plastic to one side, the woman steps back through the door into her magical democide.
Over the next two hours a steady stream of Lupas subsequently emerges from the door the original entered into, though it would be hard to tell they were in fact copies of her. Where as the previous set of clones, all reabsorbed so they would not miss out on dinner, had been straight up duplicates, these ones were warped beyond recognition. Chitinous shells and armor from beetles covered some of their bodies, hiding semi functiona wings, others had triple jointed legs somewhat resembling grasshoppers, others had small tentacles around their mouths and strange grey skin acros which color would briefly flicker as they all waited for their creator to finish. Occasionally one or two would dash away from the restless group and return a little later with a captured animal, such as a bluebird, cat, spider or skunk, and would re-enter the apartment, after which the subsequent clones would have some of the features of the captured creature. The mutant clones were not an ugly mess of animal parts however, as each had seemingly been sculpted in such a way that their myriad of additions fitted together to look a little like over designed magical girl costumes, at least from a distance, disguising their true monster girl forms. Each was also given some kind of mobility aid, such as wings, leaping legs, web shooters, fish tails or gecko pads, and most also had a weapon or stealth measure of some kind to help them get out of trouble if they couldn't simply outrun it.
After the last girl had been made, and the captured creatures had been safely released back into the wild, Lupa stepped outside once again, the door vanishing behind her as it shut this time, and observed the roughly 20 clones of herself assembled before her. Each had been carefully crafted by casting a myriad of Beast buffs on herself before she made the copy so that they look absolutely nothing like either her or the usual combat modded clones, hopefully ensuring that anything done to night could be associated with her once she actually got involved with the local magical girl scene. It was, perhaps, uncessicirily cautious, as Lupa was not intending to rustle any feathers with this initial scouting mission, but she could never fully trust her clones not to get into trouble.
Lupa, looking plain before he myriad of minions, took a few moments to address herself before they set off.
“Alright girls, you know the drill. All we want to do is get a lay of the land, so no picking fights and or spooking the normal people. I want to know monster hotspots, what mythical creatures are here and where and who the local magical girls patrol and if they are hostile. We need to know where we might be able to safely open our door, where we can get a local map or a free meal, where there's entrances to the overcity, who might live in it here and who is dangerous or helpful, where we can hide, where we can nick some easy money from or get a temp job, where we can get some human disguises for you lot, where the parks and streams are and anything else we can sue to keep Feral calm and fed and ourselves happy. Also, maybe we could try and make some friends this time? Anyway, we all got that?” there was a general corus of enthusiastic affirmation from her other selves who had all been raring to go since they were made “Alright then, let's get to it. Wolf pack, move out!”
A series of howls broke the evening quite atop that lonely hill overlooking the city, a corus joined unnervingly by that ancient hungering thing inside that lived inside Lupa, and then in an instant they were all gone, the only evidence of the packs prior presence a discarded noodle cup and a bunch of disgruntled animals.
Specialization: Beast: She can summon animals to come to her aid, empower herself others or animals with simple physical improvements or temporarily grant them physical traits of other animals that are present. She also has an intrinsic understanding of animal body language and as a result gets along with them easily. Finally her senses are naturally sharper and her general physique sightly improved even while in her human form. Sound: Rieka has no skill with instruments (her claws ended up made using them incredibly inconvenient anyway), and her voice is ill suited for singing which made originally getting sound powers rather unfortunate. In the short period before becoming a monster girl she mainly used via shouting/screaming at her enemy. Now she howls instead which is a minor improvement. Primarily used to in conjunction with her beast powers to provide additional buffs to her and her allies, it also gives her limited magical offense through debuffing spells and ranged sonic attacks.
Weapon: Her primary weapons are her fists, teeth and claws augmented by a pair of magical bracers that can be used to block, empower her punches or that transform into golden claws for better scratching power.
Power: Duplication: She can spend large amounts of mana to create duplicates of herself. These duplicates are as strong and tough as her, and retain any of her physical transformations, but cannot cast spells. A single wound will destroy them, though her inherent toughness, often augmented by buffs, make striking a strong enough blow a difficult prospect. Regeneration: She can regenerate health and recover mana much much faster than normal. Limbs can be reattached or, if mana is expended, regrown entirely. As a result she is incapable of succumbing to her wounds and can only be killed by a single decisive blow. Her wounds heal even while in combat and she also has increased stamina. Her disguise inhibits most of the wound regeneration but she is still has an impressive amount of stamina.
Perks: Dule weapon (melee): she has a pair of bracers that enhancer her brawling ability, either by adding force to her punches, being used as a blocking tool or by adding long golden blades to her claws. Enhanced weapon: This weapon, and her natural weapons, are superior to the standard fair. Flexibility: Rieka has a far greater range of motion in her limbs and joints than a human being should have. Adding this to her strength and dexterity it gives Rieka unparalleled agility. Awareness: She is ar more intune with what her already enhanced senses are telling her, letting her detect threats or irregularities in her situation with ease. By extension this makes her an excellent tracker Blood magic: She can convert health to mana. With regeneration she can convert mana to health. This makes the two resource pools effectively one and the same. Interdimensional Home: A spacious studio apartment located in another world that can be accessed after 10 seconds of concentration. The room has no door, a window looking out at an alien city, simple furniture and a fridge containing an endless supply of cheat instant meals. It also features a number of terrariums and cages where Rieka keeps a number of low maintenance or useful pets that she can borrow traits from. Monstrous metamorphosis: extremes of emotion (or intense hunger) can cause her to lose control and unleash the beast within, her mutations overcoming her mind and body as she becomes a fully fledged werewolf. This form is even stronger, faster and tougher but she loses the ability to think rationally, becoming limited to simple fight or flight style decisions. This form is not prevented from using magic however, which can cause issues if the beast starts duplicating feral versions of herself, as they lack the magic to shift back to monster girl or human form.
Patron: Feral
Benefits: Focused, Subtle, Magical Overload, Physical prowess, Mental Link
Drawbacks: Alien Mind, Alien Tongue, Formless, Monstrous Form
Monstrous Form: Body mutation: Nonstandard limbs (wolfish arms and legs, addition of tail and wolf ears) Mind mutation: Devourer, Feral and as a direct result Alica, hunger for the blood of magical beings which the pair both uses to sustain themselves. Soul mutation: Redirected Magic (Feral improves her physical traits while draining some of her magical energy in the process), second specialisation (Beast)
Fighting Style: When it comes to physically fighting Rieka is a wolf through and through, because she fights with a pack, one consisting entirely of duplicate copies of herself. Using her regeneration and blood magic in combination she can rapidly produce the mana necissery to build up a small army of clones that, thanks to her inherent toughness and strength, are more than meer decoys, capable of dishing out serious damage in melee while shrugging off attacks weaker than rifle bullets without being dissipated. All this is before her specialisations come into the mix.
With beast and sound magic she can buff both herself and her clones even furthur. Before duplication she can physically empower herself with extra muscle or with mutations borrowed from other animals, either the ones in her dimensional home (mainly herbivorous insects) or any that she can find/summon from the immediate area. After duplication she can further buff herself and her close using soundmagic, her howls empowering the pack to fight harder and to shrug off even greater blows. She can also weaken her foes with his magic or use it for ranged sonic howl attacks. Overall Alica’s magical effects aren't particularly strong individually however she can pump out a lot of them and can passively maintain a lot of buffs/clones thanks to her high mana regeneration gained from regeneration, blood magic converting the hp portion of regen into mana and her high vitality.
The pack fights mostly using hunting style tactics, surrounding the foe with their numbers and trying to herd them to a disadvantage location while individual duplicates make attacks of opportunities on their prey when it is distracted. The clones are not opposed to using human wave tactics however, bum rushing a target en masse as Rieka herself pumps out a constant stream of reserves in an endurance match that the mana ritch werewolf can often win. Ranged combat wise the pack is limited to throwing things, although working together they can toss some pretty heavy stuff around. Watch out for flying cars. And flying wolf girls.
Rieka herself, when she isn't at the heart of her pack buffing or at the back reinforcing it, is an in your face brawler who will furiously try to beat the crap out of her foes with a flurry of punches, kicks, scratches and bites. Her regeneration means that she can afford to be reckless like this as long as she avoids instantly fatal blows and it gives her pack ample opportunity to attack the target from the rear. It's preferable that she be the focus of their foe’s attacks, as the clones can mostly dish out the same amount of hurt as the original, but Alica herself can soak considerable more damage.
Personality: Spunky, enthusiastic and endlessly energetic, Rieka tries her best to not let circumstances get the better of her which is as much a coping mechanism as it is her natural personality. She tries to make friends, it's lonely being a monster with another monster living inside you, but so far she hasn’t had much luck. She’s also something of a glutton for punishment, has an almost reckless disregard of her own safety and takes far to much enjoyment from fighting a good, and just, fight.
History: Rieka was, originally just another high school graduate from a small town who had no idea what she was going to do with her life. Half decent grades, small circle of friends, minor interest in athleticism, no real skills or special talents to speak of. It doesn't really matter anymore. She can't go back, not when she can't be comfortable in her own skin anymore. Not with the hunger gnawing at her bones.
It was while she was talking a short jog through the local woods one evening when she met her fate, stumbling across an injured young girl dressed in cutesy attire slumped against a tree with a dainty rapier resting at her side who looked to be the victim of a wild animal attack. The girl tried desperately to get Rieka to go away, warning that she was in danger, but young woman would not be dissuaded and tried to assist her, to both their detriment. The girl’s attacker revealed itself almost as soon as Rieka got to the girl’s side: a monstrous wolf, its fur black as coal, teeth the size of kitchen knives and its body covered in wounds, old and new, surged out of the undergrowth and charged the pair. Rieka was thrown aside by the surprisingly strong girl just before the beast was upon them. Rieka crashed to ground as the girl let out a sickening scream that was cut off as suddenly as it began. Unwilling to look back as the monstrous wolf began to gorge itself on the girl’s body she tried to crawl away, only to be presented with an unnaturally cute critter that then inexplicably spoke to her in an unsuitable calm tone.
“It’s going to eat you after its done with her you know, but if you sign a contract with me and became a magical girl you might just survive. I’m in need of a new girl anyway.”
Rieka could only look at her dumbfounded for a few silent moments before it added
“It’s your fault she’s dead you know, the least you could do is make sure her family has a body left to bury.” it looked past her at the monster for a moment and adding “You’d better hurry up if you want that though”
It was that guilt that sealed the deal. Magic flowed into her as she stood and turned to fast the beast which showed sudden interest in the new magical girl where before it had ignored the scared young woman. After a long, grueling battle in which the unskilled girl lost more blood than she thought she had in her she finally put down the beast thanks in no small part to the mounds it had sustained fighting the other girl, including the rapier she had trust through its chest in her dying moments. When the final blow was struck two horrible things happen. First of all the wolf shrunk as it perished, shedding fur as it revealed it’s true form: the broken body of another young girl. Second, an ethereal presence leaped out of the body at her ghosting inside her body faster than she could react. Then she blacked out.
She woke up some time later, her body forever changed. Back fur coated her arms and lower legs, claws had sprouted from her fingers and toes, her teeth had grown sharp, a long tail swept down behind her and a pair of ears could now be found perched atop her head. Worse than this was the fact that both of the other girl’s bodies had been torn apart and devoured while she was out. Judging by the fact that she was now covered in even more blood it had been her who had consumed them, and yet she was, horrifyingly, still hungry. The last thing she saw after she awoke was the strange creature that she had signed a contract with. It was some down the path from the bloody carnage, staring at her blankly.
“Disgusting” was all it said before it disappeared into the forest. The next time she saw it it had a new girl who it had sent to kill her. It ended up being one of the few things she had enjoyed eating since her transformation.
After the next few weeks she got to understand her new predicament. The spirit, something she eventually found out was a being know as a lesser force, had possessed her body and now drove her to hunt and consume other magical beings. For the most part she still had control of her body and mind, at least until the hunger got bad enough or she broke down emotionally, but the specter, that she ended up calling Feral, rudely inserted itself into her mind as a kind of brutal instinct that wordlessly helped her find pray and fight it. She tried her damnedest to avoid hunting anything/one innocent and has so far has succeeded with a few near misses. Eventually she was guided towards the city, a concrete jungle bursting with potential pray.
Additional Info: When it comes to normal food she is actually a vegetarian, but her speciality dish is, by necessity, monster mash stew.
Type: Lesser force
Name: Feral
Personality: Feral is an apt description of its personality, which is precisely the reason Rieka gave the thing possessing her that name. The completely alien mind of the spirit thirsts for the blood of magical beings and communicates primarily by forcing this urge upon Alicia, driving her to hunt that most dangerous of pray. It's only other communications are feeling based, as it subconsciously urges Rieka to go this way, avoid this thing, attack this thing in this way and so on.
History: Feral seems to be a kind of ancient spirit embodying the concept of either predators or the hunt that has hopped from host to host, be it magical girl, monster or other mythical creature, and then driving them to hunt down other magical beings to further sustain itself.
Resources: Feral has nothing other than Rieka at its disposal.
Additional Info: Feral is possessing Rieka and if she dies it will attempt to possess something/one else nearby
1g, 3s, 4b Emergency origin 16 Overdeveloped (+1 vit) Psychic (+2 mag +2 LCK) S for Sound (+ 1 agi, + 2 MAG, + 1 LCK) Fists(+2 STR) Skimpy(+1 agility) Duplication Gold for regeneration origin choice of +1 weapon stats, enhanced weapon (+1 STR) origin choice of +1 weapon stats, melee (+1 str + 1 vit, buffed by enhanced weapon to become +2 str + 2 vit) Flexibility (+1 agility) Awareness Familiar, S switch to Interdimensional home. Big damn hero - origin switch to blood magic ( + 1 vit) Monstrous metamorphosis (+2 Str + 2 AGI + 2 Vit when active) Patron choices:
Lesser force
Benefits: Focus, subtle, magical overload, Physical prowess (+1 to physical stats), mental link
Drawbacks: Alien Mind, Alien Tongue, Formless, Monstrous Form
Monster girl from magical overload Body mutation: Nonstandard limbs (wolfish arms, legs, tail and ears Mind mutation: Devourer. Tasty tasty monster meat or a more spiritual hunger for the hunt. Soul mutation: Redirected Magic (-3 mag, +2 STR, VTI and AGI), second specialisation: Beast (+1 STR +1 agi + 1 luck)
Perks = + 5 Str + 3 Agi + 3 Mag + 4 Vit + 1 LCK
3 bronze and 1 silver remaining for +5 stats
+ 1 Str + 3 Mag + 1 Vit
Physical prowess, second specialisation and Redirected magic from patron
+ 4 Str + 4 Agi + 3 Vit - 3 Mag + 1 LCK
Beast, flexibility and blood magic grant out of transformation/disguised stats
Specialization: Beast: She can summon animals to come to her aid, empower herself others or animals with simple physical improvements or temporarily grant them physical traits of other animals that are present. She also has an intrinsic understanding of animal body language and as a result gets along with them easily. Finally her senses are naturally sharper and her general physique sightly improved even while in her human form. Sound: Rieka has no skill with instruments (her claws ended up made using them incredibly inconvenient anyway), and her voice is ill suited for singing which made originally getting sound powers rather unfortunate. In the short period before becoming a monster girl she mainly used via shouting/screaming at her enemy. Now she howls instead which is a minor improvement. Primarily used to in conjunction with her beast powers to provide additional buffs to her and her allies, it also gives her limited magical offense through debuffing spells and ranged sonic attacks.
Weapon: Her primary weapons are her fists, teeth and claws augmented by a pair of magical bracers that can be used to block, empower her punches or that transform into golden claws for better scratching power.
Power: Duplication: She can spend large amounts of mana to create duplicates of herself. These duplicates are as strong and tough as her, and retain any of her physical transformations, but cannot cast spells. A single wound will destroy them, though her inherent toughness, often augmented by buffs, make striking a strong enough blow a difficult prospect. Regeneration: She can regenerate health and recover mana much much faster than normal. Limbs can be reattached or, if mana is expended, regrown entirely. As a result she is incapable of succumbing to her wounds and can only be killed by a single decisive blow. Her wounds heal even while in combat and she also has increased stamina. Her disguise inhibits most of the wound regeneration but she is still has an impressive amount of stamina.
Perks: Dule weapon (melee): she has a pair of bracers that enhancer her brawling ability, either by adding force to her punches, being used as a blocking tool or by adding long golden blades to her claws. Enhanced weapon: This weapon, and her natural weapons, are superior to the standard fair. Flexibility: Rieka has a far greater range of motion in her limbs and joints than a human being should have. Adding this to her strength and dexterity it gives Rieka unparalleled agility. Awareness: She is ar more intune with what her already enhanced senses are telling her, letting her detect threats or irregularities in her situation with ease. By extension this makes her an excellent tracker Blood magic: She can convert health to mana. With regeneration she can convert mana to health. This makes the two resource pools effectively one and the same. Interdimensional Home: A spacious studio apartment located in another world that can be accessed after 10 seconds of concentration. The room has no door, a window looking out at an alien city, simple furniture and a fridge containing an endless supply of cheat instant meals. It also features a number of terrariums and cages where Rieka keeps a number of low maintenance or useful pets that she can borrow traits from. Monstrous metamorphosis: extremes of emotion (or intense hunger) can cause her to lose control and unleash the beast within, her mutations overcoming her mind and body as she becomes a fully fledged werewolf. This form is even stronger, faster and tougher but she loses the ability to think rationally, becoming limited to simple fight or flight style decisions. This form is not prevented from using magic however, which can cause issues if the beast starts duplicating feral versions of herself, as they lack the magic to shift back to monster girl or human form.
Patron: Feral
Benefits: Focused: The power of beasts flows from Feral as it embodies that side of nature, though more specifically it is the aspect of predators, rather than the pray. This specialisation bleeds into Rieka’s sound specialisation. Sound the hunting horn and let chase comence. Mental Link: not only is feral’s mind linked with Rieka’s its body is too, as the spirit has possessed its only servent and is using her as a tool to feed its hunger. Subtle: Feral is, when compared to other magical beings, absolutely tiny and hides within its host. Stealth is also a fundamental part of being a hunter, and so both Rieka and Feral’s magic are incredibly difficult to spot even for those with a nac for it. Physical prowess: a hunter must be strong, fast and resilient. Magical Overload: Having a lesser force inside you has its benefits to be sure, for Feral empowers her by simple presence alone.
Drawbacks: Alien Mind + Alien Tongue + Formless: Feral is a bestial spirit and as such it is incapable of understanding or communicating in a human manner, nor does it have any real power of its own without a host. Monstrous Form: Having a lesser force inside you has its downsides as well, her body and mind warped to an inhuman form that better facilitates the presence of Feral within her. Body mutation: Nonstandard limbs (wolfish arms and legs, addition of tail and wolf ears) Mind mutation: Devourer, Feral and as a direct result Alica, hunger for the blood of magical beings which the pair both uses to sustain themselves. Soul mutation: Redirected Magic (Feral improves her physical traits while draining some of her magical energy in the process), second specialisation (Beast)
Fighting Style: When it comes to physically fighting Rieka is a wolf through and through, because she fights with a pack, one consisting entirely of duplicate copies of herself. Using her regeneration and blood magic in combination she can rapidly produce the mana necissery to build up a small army of clones that, thanks to her inherent toughness and strength, are more than meer decoys, capable of dishing out serious damage in melee while shrugging off attacks weaker than rifle bullets without being dissipated. All this is before her specialisations come into the mix.
With beast and sound magic she can buff both herself and her clones even furthur. Before duplication she can physically empower herself with extra muscle or with mutations borrowed from other animals, either the ones in her dimensional home (mainly herbivorous insects) or any that she can find/summon from the immediate area. After duplication she can further buff herself and her close using soundmagic, her howls empowering the pack to fight harder and to shrug off even greater blows. She can also weaken her foes with his magic or use it for ranged sonic howl attacks. Overall Alica’s magical effects aren't particularly strong individually however she can pump out a lot of them and can passively maintain a lot of buffs/clones thanks to her high mana regeneration gained from regeneration, blood magic converting the hp portion of regen into mana and her high vitality.
The pack fights mostly using hunting style tactics, surrounding the foe with their numbers and trying to herd them to a disadvantage location while individual duplicates make attacks of opportunities on their prey when it is distracted. The clones are not opposed to using human wave tactics however, bum rushing a target en masse as Rieka herself pumps out a constant stream of reserves in an endurance match that the mana ritch werewolf can often win. Ranged combat wise the pack is limited to throwing things, although working together they can toss some pretty heavy stuff around. Watch out for flying cars. And flying wolf girls.
Rieka herself, when she isn't at the heart of her pack buffing or at the back reinforcing it, is an in your face brawler who will furiously try to beat the crap out of her foes with a flurry of punches, kicks, scratches and bites. Her regeneration means that she can afford to be reckless like this as long as she avoids instantly fatal blows and it gives her pack ample opportunity to attack the target from the rear. It's preferable that she be the focus of their foe’s attacks, as the clones can mostly dish out the same amount of hurt as the original, but Alica herself can soak considerable more damage.
Personality: Spunky, enthusiastic and endlessly energetic, Rieka tries her best to not let circumstances get the better of her which is as much a coping mechanism as it is her natural personality. She tries to make friends, it's lonely being a monster with another monster living inside you, but so far she hasn’t had much luck. She’s also something of a glutton for punishment, has an almost reckless disregard of her own safety and takes far to much enjoyment from fighting a good, and just, fight.
History: Rieka was, originally just another high school graduate from a small town who had no idea what she was going to do with her life. Half decent grades, small circle of friends, minor interest in athleticism, no real skills or special talents to speak of. It doesn't really matter anymore. She can't go back, not when she can't be comfortable in her own skin anymore. Not with the hunger gnawing at her bones.
It was while she was talking a short jog through the local woods one evening when she met her fate, stumbling across an injured young girl dressed in cutesy attire slumped against a tree with a dainty rapier resting at her side who looked to be the victim of a wild animal attack. The girl tried desperately to get Rieka to go away, warning that she was in danger, but young woman would not be dissuaded and tried to assist her, to both their detriment. The girl’s attacker revealed itself almost as soon as Rieka got to the girl’s side: a monstrous wolf, its fur black as coal, teeth the size of kitchen knives and its body covered in wounds, old and new, surged out of the undergrowth and charged the pair. Rieka was thrown aside by the surprisingly strong girl just before the beast was upon them. Rieka crashed to ground as the girl let out a sickening scream that was cut off as suddenly as it began. Unwilling to look back as the monstrous wolf began to gorge itself on the girl’s body she tried to crawl away, only to be presented with an unnaturally cute critter that then inexplicably spoke to her in an unsuitable calm tone.
“It’s going to eat you after its done with her you know, but if you sign a contract with me and became a magical girl you might just survive. I’m in need of a new girl anyway.”
Rieka could only look at her dumbfounded for a few silent moments before it added
“It’s your fault she’s dead you know, the least you could do is make sure her family has a body left to bury.” it looked past her at the monster for a moment and adding “You’d better hurry up if you want that though”
It was that guilt that sealed the deal. Magic flowed into her as she stood and turned to fast the beast which showed sudden interest in the new magical girl where before it had ignored the scared young woman. After a long, grueling battle in which the unskilled girl lost more blood than she thought she had in her she finally put down the beast thanks in no small part to the mounds it had sustained fighting the other girl, including the rapier she had trust through its chest in her dying moments. When the final blow was struck two horrible things happen. First of all the wolf shrunk as it perished, shedding fur as it revealed it’s true form: the broken body of another young girl. Second, an ethereal presence leaped out of the body at her ghosting inside her body faster than she could react. Then she blacked out.
She woke up some time later, her body forever changed. Back fur coated her arms and lower legs, claws had sprouted from her fingers and toes, her teeth had grown sharp, a long tail swept down behind her and a pair of ears could now be found perched atop her head. Worse than this was the fact that both of the other girl’s bodies had been torn apart and devoured while she was out. Judging by the fact that she was now covered in even more blood it had been her who had consumed them, and yet she was, horrifyingly, still hungry. The last thing she saw after she awoke was the strange creature that she had signed a contract with. It was some down the path from the bloody carnage, staring at her blankly.
“Disgusting” was all it said before it disappeared into the forest. The next time she saw it it had a new girl who it had sent to kill her. It ended up being one of the few things she had enjoyed eating since her transformation.
After the next few weeks she got to understand her new predicament. The spirit, something she eventually found out was a being know as a lesser force, had possessed her body and now drove her to hunt and consume other magical beings. For the most part she still had control of her body and mind, at least until the hunger got bad enough or she broke down emotionally, but the specter, that she ended up calling Feral, rudely inserted itself into her mind as a kind of brutal instinct that wordlessly helped her find pray and fight it. She tried her damnedest to avoid hunting anything/one innocent and has so far has succeeded with a few near misses. Eventually she was guided towards the city, a concrete jungle bursting with potential pray.
Additional Info: When it comes to normal food she is actually a vegetarian, but her speciality dish is, by necessity, monster mash stew.
Type: Lesser force
Name: Feral
Personality: Feral is an apt description of its personality, which is precisely the reason Rieka gave the thing possessing her that name. The completely alien mind of the spirit thirsts for the blood of magical beings and communicates primarily by forcing this urge upon Alicia, driving her to hunt that most dangerous of pray. It's only other communications are feeling based, as it subconsciously urges Rieka to go this way, avoid this thing, attack this thing in this way and so on.
History: Feral seems to be a kind of ancient spirit embodying the concept of either predators or the hunt that has hopped from host to host, be it magical girl, monster or other mythical creature, and then driving them to hunt down other magical beings to further sustain itself.
Resources: Feral has nothing other than Rieka at its disposal. They hunt, and hunger, together.
Additional Info: Feral is possessing Rieka and if she dies it will attempt to possess something/one else nearby
1g, 3s, 4b Emergency origin 16 Overdeveloped (+1 vit) Psychic (+2 mag +2 LCK) S for Sound (+ 1 agi, + 2 MAG, + 1 LCK) Fists(+2 STR) Skimpy(+1 agility) Duplication Gold for regeneration origin choice of +1 weapon stats, enhanced weapon (+1 STR) origin choice of +1 weapon stats, melee (+1 str + 1 vit, buffed by enhanced weapon to become +2 str + 2 vit) Flexibility (+1 agility) Awareness Familiar, S switch to Interdimensional home. Big damn hero - origin switch to blood magic ( + 1 vit) Monstrous metamorphosis (+2 Str + 2 AGI + 2 Vit when active) Patron choices:
Lesser force
Benefits: Focus, subtle, magical overload, Physical prowess (+1 to physical stats), mental link
Drawbacks: Alien Mind, Alien Tongue, Formless, Monstrous Form
Monster girl from magical overload Body mutation: Nonstandard limbs (wolfish arms, legs, tail and ears Mind mutation: Devourer. Tasty tasty monster meat or a more spiritual hunger for the hunt. Soul mutation: Redirected Magic (-3 mag, +2 STR, VTI and AGI), second specialisation: Beast (+1 STR +1 agi + 1 luck)
Perks = + 5 Str + 3 Agi + 3 Mag + 4 Vit + 1 LCK
3 bronze and 1 silver remaining for +5 stats
+ 1 Str + 3 Mag + 1 Vit
Physical prowess, second specialisation and Redirected magic from patron
+ 4 Str + 4 Agi + 3 Vit - 3 Mag + 1 LCK
Beast, flexibility and blood magic grant out of transformation/disguised stats
Specialization: Beast: She can summon animals to come to her aid, empower herself others or animals with simple physical improvements or temporarily grant them physical traits of other animals that are present. She also has an intrinsic understanding of animal body language and as a result gets along with them easily. Finally her senses are naturally sharper and her general physique sightly improved even while in her human form. Sound: Rieka has no skill with instruments (her claws ended up made using them incredibly inconvenient anyway), and her voice is ill suited for singing which made originally getting sound powers rather unfortunate. In the short period before becoming a monster girl she mainly used via shouting/screaming at her enemy. Now she howls instead which is a minor improvement. Primarily used to in conjunction with her beast powers to provide additional buffs to her and her allies, it also gives her limited magical offense through debuffing spells and ranged sonic attacks.
Weapon: Her primary weapons are her fists, teeth and claws augmented by a pair of magical bracers that can be used to block, empower her punches or that transform into golden claws for better scratching power.
Power: Duplication: She can spend large amounts of mana to create duplicates of herself. These duplicates are as strong and tough as her, and retain any of her physical transformations, but cannot cast spells. A single wound will destroy them, though her inherent toughness, often augmented by buffs, make striking a strong enough blow a difficult prospect. Regeneration: She can regenerate health and recover mana much much faster than normal. Limbs can be reattached or, if mana is expended, regrown entirely. As a result she is incapable of succumbing to her wounds and can only be killed by a single decisive blow. Her wounds heal even while in combat and she also has increased stamina. Her disguise inhibits most of the wound regeneration but she is still has an impressive amount of stamina.
Perks: Dule weapon (melee): she has a pair of bracers that enhancer her brawling ability, either by adding force to her punches, being used as a blocking tool or by adding long golden blades to her claws. Enhanced weapon: This weapon, and her natural weapons, are superior to the standard fair. Blood magic: She can convert health to mana. With regeneration she can convert mana to health. This makes the two resource pools effectively one and the same. Interdimensional Home: A spacious studio apartment located in another world that can be accessed after 10 seconds of concentration. The room has no door, a window looking out at an alien city, simple furniture and a fridge containing an endless supply of cheat instant meals. It also features a number of terrariums and cages where Rieka keeps a number of low maintenance or useful pets that she can borrow traits from. Monstrous metamorphosis: extremes of emotion (or intense hunger) can cause her to lose control and unleash the beast within, her mutations overcoming her mind and body as she becomes a fully fledged werewolf. This form is even stronger, faster and tougher but she loses the ability to think rationally, becoming limited to simple fight or flight style decisions. This form is not prevented from using magic however, which can cause issues if the beast starts duplicating feral versions of herself, as they lack the magic to shift back to monster girl or human form.
Patron: Feral
Benefits: Focused, Subtle, Magical Overload, Physical prowess, Mental Link
Drawbacks: Alien Mind, Alien Tongue, Formless, Monstrous Form
Monstrous Form: Body mutation: Nonstandard limbs (wolfish arms and legs, addition of tail and wolf ears) Mind mutation: Devourer, Feral and as a direct result Alica, hunger for the blood of magical beings which the pair both uses to sustain themselves. Soul mutation: Redirected Magic (Feral improves her physical traits while draining some of her magical energy in the process), second specialisation (Beast)
Fighting Style: When it comes to physically fighting Rieka is a wolf through and through, because she fights with a pack, one consisting entirely of duplicate copies of herself. Using her regeneration and blood magic in combination she can rapidly produce the mana necissery to build up a small army of clones that, thanks to her inherent toughness and strength, are more than meer decoys, capable of dishing out serious damage in melee while shrugging off attacks weaker than rifle bullets without being dissipated. All this is before her specialisations come into the mix.
With beast and sound magic she can buff both herself and her clones even furthur. Before duplication she can physically empower herself with extra muscle or with mutations borrowed from other animals, either the ones in her dimensional home (mainly herbivorous insects) or any that she can find/summon from the immediate area. After duplication she can further buff herself and her close using soundmagic, her howls empowering the pack to fight harder and to shrug off even greater blows. She can also weaken her foes with his magic or use it for ranged sonic howl attacks. Overall Alica’s magical effects aren't particularly strong individually however she can pump out a lot of them and can passively maintain a lot of buffs/clones thanks to her high mana regeneration gained from regeneration, blood magic converting the hp portion of regen into mana and her high vitality.
The pack fights mostly using hunting style tactics, surrounding the foe with their numbers and trying to herd them to a disadvantage location while individual duplicates make attacks of opportunities on their prey when it is distracted. The clones are not opposed to using human wave tactics however, bum rushing a target en masse as Rieka herself pumps out a constant stream of reserves in an endurance match that the mana ritch werewolf can often win. Ranged combat wise the pack is limited to throwing things, although working together they can toss some pretty heavy stuff around. Watch out for flying cars. And flying wolf girls.
Rieka herself, when she isn't at the heart of her pack buffing or at the back reinforcing it, is an in your face brawler who will furiously try to beat the crap out of her foes with a flurry of punches, kicks, scratches and bites. Her regeneration means that she can afford to be reckless like this as long as she avoids instantly fatal blows and it gives her pack ample opportunity to attack the target from the rear. It's preferable that she be the focus of their foe’s attacks, as the clones can mostly dish out the same amount of hurt as the original, but Alica herself can soak considerable more damage.
Personality: Spunky, enthusiastic and endlessly energetic, Rieka tries her best to not let circumstances get the better of her which is as much a coping mechanism as it is her natural personality. She tries to make friends, it's lonely being a monster with another monster living inside you, but so far she hasn’t had much luck. She’s also something of a glutton for punishment, has an almost reckless disregard of her own safety and takes far to much enjoyment from fighting a good, and just, fight.
History: Rieka was, originally just another high school graduate from a small town who had no idea what she was going to do with her life. Half decent grades, small circle of friends, minor interest in athleticism, no real skills or special talents to speak of. It doesn't really matter anymore. She can't go back, not when she can't be comfortable in her own skin anymore. Not with the hunger gnawing at her bones.
It was while she was talking a short jog through the local woods one evening when she met her fate, stumbling across an injured young girl dressed in cutesy attire slumped against a tree with a dainty rapier resting at her side who looked to be the victim of a wild animal attack. The girl tried desperately to get Rieka to go away, warning that she was in danger, but young woman would not be dissuaded and tried to assist her, to both their detriment. The girl’s attacker revealed itself almost as soon as Rieka got to the girl’s side: a monstrous wolf, its fur black as coal, teeth the size of kitchen knives and its body covered in wounds, old and new, surged out of the undergrowth and charged the pair. Rieka was thrown aside by the surprisingly strong girl just before the beast was upon them. Rieka crashed to ground as the girl let out a sickening scream that was cut off as suddenly as it began. Unwilling to look back as the monstrous wolf began to gorge itself on the girl’s body she tried to crawl away, only to be presented with an unnaturally cute critter that then inexplicably spoke to her in an unsuitable calm tone.
“It’s going to eat you after its done with her you know, but if you sign a contract with me and became a magical girl you might just survive. I’m in need of a new girl anyway.”
Rieka could only look at her dumbfounded for a few silent moments before it added
“It’s your fault she’s dead you know, the least you could do is make sure her family has a body left to bury.” it looked past her at the monster for a moment and adding “You’d better hurry up if you want that though”
It was that guilt that sealed the deal. Magic flowed into her as she stood and turned to fast the beast which showed sudden interest in the new magical girl where before it had ignored the scared young woman. After a long, grueling battle in which the unskilled girl lost more blood than she thought she had in her she finally put down the beast thanks in no small part to the mounds it had sustained fighting the other girl, including the rapier she had trust through its chest in her dying moments. When the final blow was struck two horrible things happen. First of all the wolf shrunk as it perished, shedding fur as it revealed it’s true form: the broken body of another young girl. Second, an ethereal presence leaped out of the body at her ghosting inside her body faster than she could react. Then she blacked out.
She woke up some time later, her body forever changed. Back fur coated her arms and lower legs, claws had sprouted from her fingers and toes, her teeth had grown sharp, a long tail swept down behind her and a pair of ears could now be found perched atop her head. Worse than this was the fact that both of the other girl’s bodies had been torn apart and devoured while she was out. Judging by the fact that she was now covered in even more blood it had been her who had consumed them, and yet she was, horrifyingly, still hungry. The last thing she saw after she awoke was the strange creature that she had signed a contract with. It was some down the path from the bloody carnage, staring at her blankly.
“Disgusting” was all it said before it disappeared into the forest. The next time she saw it it had a new girl who it had sent to kill her. It ended up being one of the few things she had enjoyed eating since her transformation.
After the next few weeks she got to understand her new predicament. The spirit, something she eventually found out was a being know as a lesser force, had possessed her body and now drove her to hunt and consume other magical beings. For the most part she still had control of her body and mind, at least until the hunger got bad enough or she broke down emotionally, but the specter, that she ended up calling Feral, rudely inserted itself into her mind as a kind of brutal instinct that wordlessly helped her find pray and fight it. She tried her damnedest to avoid hunting anything/one innocent and has so far has succeeded with a few near misses. Eventually she was guided towards the city, a concrete jungle bursting with potential pray.
Additional Info: When it comes to normal food she is actually a vegetarian, but her speciality dish is, by necessity, monster mash stew.
Type: Lesser force
Name: Feral
Personality: Feral is an apt description of its personality, which is precisely the reason Rieka gave the thing possessing her that name. The completely alien mind of the spirit thirsts for the blood of magical beings and communicates primarily by forcing this urge upon Alicia, driving her to hunt that most dangerous of pray. It's only other communications are feeling based, as it subconsciously urges Rieka to go this way, avoid this thing, attack this thing in this way and so on.
History: Feral seems to be a kind of ancient spirit embodying the concept of either predators or the hunt that has hopped from host to host, be it magical girl, monster or other mythical creature, and then driving them to hunt down other magical beings to further sustain itself.
Resources: Feral has nothing other than Rieka at its disposal.
Additional Info: Feral is possessing Rieka and if she dies it will attempt to possess something/one else nearby
20 - 20 - 6 - 16 - 4 - 14 - 4 - 14 - 16 - 14 1g, 3s, 4b Emergency origin 16 Overdeveloped (+1 vit) Psychic (+2 mag +2 LCK) S for Sound (+ 1 agi, + 2 MAG, + 1 LCK) Fists(+2 STR) Skimpy(+1 agility) Duplication Gold for regeneration origin choice of +1 weapon stats, enhanced weapon (+1 STR) origin choice of +1 weapon stats, melee (+1 str + 1 vit, buffed by enhanced weapon to become +2 str + 2 vit) Familiar, S switch to Interdimensional home. Big damn hero - origin switch to blood magic ( + 1 vit) Monstrous metamorphosis (+2 Str + 2 AGI + 2 Vit when active) Patron choices:
Lesser force
Benefits: Focus, subtle, magical overload, Physical prowess (+1 to physical stats), mental link
Drawbacks: Alien Mind, Alien Tongue, Formless, Monstrous Form
Monster girl from magical overload Body mutation: Nonstandard limbs (wolfish arms, legs, tail and ears Mind mutation: Devourer. Tasty tasty monster meat or a more spiritual hunger for the hunt. Soul mutation: Redirected Magic (-3 mag, +2 STR, VTI and AGI), second specialisation: Beast (+1 STR +1 agi + 1 luck)
Perks = + 5 Str + 2 Agi + 3 Mag + 4 Vit + 1 LCK
3 bronze and 1 silver remaining for +5 stats
+ 1 Str + 3 Mag + 1 Vit
Physical prowess, second specialisation and Redirected magic from patron
+ 4 Str + 4 Agi + 3 Vit - 3 Mag + 1 LCK
Beast and blood magic grant out of transformation/disguised stats
is this open to new people as well? because I may have taken the CYOA system for making magical girls and somehow used it to make a one girl pack of werewolves instead